The Letter O

Centre: Oregon Coast: This is my very favourite vacation spot: Nehalem Bay. It is truly a must-visit place. The campsite we stay at is nestled behind the dunes and there is a 15 minute walk to the sleepy town of Manzanita where Kira and I stroll for a Raspberry Mocha and some homebaked muffins.

From Left to Right, Top to Bottom

1. Ocean: I grew up here on the West Coast and I love the ocean. Listening to the waves is one of the most soothing things for me. I love it stormy, I love it calm, I love it swirling with whitecaps and deep, still blue. Unlike most people I know, I love to be on the ocean when it is pitching and rolling. Exciting and lulling at the same time.            
2. Olympia: I am amazed that historical sites like this remain today. I would dearly love to visit them. Perhaps one day…
3. Opera: I love the opera. Ok. Selectively. I love Mozart in particular. I also enjoy the opera I am familiar with via Bugs Bunny. I miss the classic politically incorrect Bugs Bunny of my youth – they did a great job introducing opera and classical music to kids. Along with violence, cannibalism and racism. But hey – it was cartoons!
4. Oleander, white: Loved that book! Movie…not so much. (yeah, I was having a time with the letter O)
5. Orange: Ha! Don’t you love that little orange peel man? I was going to post a pic of an orange grove but couldn’t find one I liked and then I spied that fellow. Pretty cute.
6. Ocelot: Really I just like that word a lot. But the baby ocelot is adorable.
7. Ophelia:  How visually assaulting is this passage?
Queen Gertrude:

There is a willow grows aslant a brook,
That shows his hoar leaves in the glassy stream;
There with fantastic garlands did she come
Of crow-flowers, nettles, daisies, and long purples
That liberal shepherds give a grosser name,
But our cold maids do dead men’s fingers call them:
There, on the pendent boughs her coronet weeds
Clambering to hang, an envious sliver broke;
When down her weedy trophies and herself
Fell in the weeping brook. Her clothes spread wide;
And, mermaid-like, awhile they bore her up:
Which time she chanted snatches of old tunes;
As one incapable of her own distress,
Or like a creature native and indued
Unto that element: but long it could not be
Till that her garments, heavy with their drink,
Pull’d the poor wretch from her melodious lay
To muddy death.

8. Oddyseus: Yet another ancient legend that coloured my childhood.
9. Owl: Amazing creatures. I also love that a grouping of Owls is called a parliament.
10. Outer Space: So beautiful. And do you remember being a child and the term ‘outer space’ was enough for you? Now Pluto isn’t even a planet!
11. Orchids: The flowers stagger me with their beauty. To be so hardy and at the same time fragile and particular. Adaptation is one of my favourite films too. That car accident scene was so shocking wasn’t it?
12. Oriental Gardens: My favourite type of garden to visit — if I only had the space! This is a pic of Dr. Sun Yat Sen Garden in Vancouver. When I was in college I would go there sometimes on my lunchbreak and just get away from the city.